I prefer the red wine delivery system ... you remain happy whether the stuff is reducing your aging processes or not, and it makes the gals a lot prettier. Unfortunely, it doesn’t mke you any handsomer ... unless she’s drinking the medicine with you!

Yep. That’s what I want. Barbara Streisand, Cher and Jane Fonda all 140 years old sitting on a park bench asking the young guys that go by if they would “Like to see where the elephant keeps his peanuts?”

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posted on 03/10/2013 4:10:17 PM PDT
by blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")

Who in their right mind would want to live to be 150 during these times?! Give me a pill that subtracts 50 years so I don’t have to worry about having no savings or social security to live on with the thief in the WH trying to leave us broke and penniless without social security to live on if I live long enough to use it (they keep wanting to move the goal posts so the recipients will die before they ever get to use it if it’s even there by that time).

Yeh like who lives to 150 or even comes close? Look at the late Jack Lalanne, an avid lifetime exercise lifestyle, extremely healthy diet and husband to one wife. He lived to age 95 God bless him but he didn’t even crack the century mark.
Life in the birthday suit has a shelf life and no one escapes it—albeit one can delay the inevitable at times.

"We're finding that aging isn't the irreversible affliction that we thought it was."

The actual root cause of aging was discovered some time ago. When cells die, and are replaced by new cells, there is always a very tiny bit of degradation in the copy. Sort of like what happens if you copy a xerox from a xerox, from a xerox, etc.

It was theorized, that if it were possible to make new cells that were perfect copies of the cells they were replacing, then logically, there should be no aging.

Long story short, experiments with mice and other animals proved the theory was correct. Here's an excerpt of an article that explains the science behind this:

"Inside the center or nucleus of a cell, our genes are located on twisted, double-stranded molecules of DNA called chromosomes. At the ends of the chromosomes are stretches of DNA called telomeres, which protect our genetic data, make it possible for cells to divide, and hold some secrets to how we age and get cancer.

Telomeres have been compared with the plastic tips on shoelaces because they prevent chromosome ends from fraying and sticking to each other, which would scramble an organism's genetic information to cause cancer, other diseases or death.

Yet, each time a cell divides, the telomeres get shorter. When they get too short, the cell no longer can divide and becomes inactive or "senescent" or dies. This process is associated with aging, cancer and a higher risk of death."

Each time a cell reproduces the telomeres are cut in half. At a certain pre determined point the cell will cease to replicate itself and die off(apoptosis). As far as I know though cancer cells do not lose telomeres and continue to make complete duplicates including a full set of telomeres.

how dare you !!! I hadn’t finished my lunch. Thomas got the placebo. Makes a hag an even more grizzled hag in no time at all. Sort of reverse of scientific trials aims. Ahh but who’s countin. What’s a few eons ......

Yes, telomeres shrink each time a cell reproduces, but only by a bit (not half). Over time, the length of the telomeres are reduced to the point that the new cells are degraded copies of the original - hence the aging process.

The most fascinating news about this discovery, is that scientists have also discovered how to prevent the telomeres from shrinking. In a nutshell, the dream of Ponce DeLeon has finally been realized.

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posted on 03/11/2013 10:31:14 AM PDT
by Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)

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